Turn Your Phone into a Lightsaber in New Google “Star Wars” Game

New Chrome “Star Wars” Experience Turns Your Phone into a Lightsaber

So, it would appear that is lightsaber in your pocket – if you know what I mean? Google is celebrating the “Star Wars” release with a new Chrome which turns your phone into a lightsaber.

It’s called “Lightsaber Escape” and it lets you use your phone to fight First Order stormtroopers on your PC monitor.

This is what Google had to say about it:

“The experience was developed in collaboration with Disney, Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic. The rich 3D graphics were built with WebGL, enabling beautiful, high fidelity 3D renders within the browser. We’re also using WebRTC and WebSockets to enable high accuracy, real-time communication between your mobile and desktop devices, reducing latency and improving interactivity. Plus, building with web standards means the experience works across browsers, and without plug-ins.”

If you want to play it, first head over to the Lightsaber Escape website. Then you use your smartphone’s browser to go to a separate URL. At that point, you should be ready to go and your phone should be goddamn lightsaber (technology is wonderful).

This is what it looks like (but really at this point you should already be playing it:

By the way, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” opens in two days (tomorrow if you want it bad enough).

Corey lives three miles from Disneyworld. He loves Batman, but hates Superman. He loves Star Wars but is indifferent to Star Trek. He's the last one to go into a Frozen sing-a-long and the last one to leave. He actually owns a Wii-U and uses it.

Corey Jenkins

Corey lives three miles from Disneyworld. He loves Batman, but hates Superman. He loves Star Wars but is indifferent to Star Trek. He's the last one to go into a Frozen sing-a-long and the last one to leave. He actually owns a Wii-U and uses it.